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Coming-of-age ceremony for university students
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-07-03 11:19


Pang Lihua, a student from Shandong University of Art and Design, kneels down in a traditional way of the Han people for a coming of age ceremony in Jinan, Shandong province July 2, 2006. More than 30 students from the university and Jinan University, now aged 18, took part in this ceremony. Their clothes were made with reference to historical documents of the Han people during the Song Dynasty (960-1279) and the ceremony followed those of that period. [Xinhua]
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